As China pushes to dominate the South China Sea, it is increasingly willing to use force to drive out the Philippines. In recent months, China’s tactics have raised fears of a superpower ...

How China strong-armed its way into dominating the South China Sea. By Agnes Chang and Hannah Beech Nov. 16, 2023 Beijing says many of these boats are just fishing. But they bristle with machine ...

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

Unlike most recent Chinese maps that encircle the South China Sea with a “nine-dash line,” the line on the new map has 10 dashes, although China has used the 10-dash line in the past.

Over two decades, the People’s Liberation Army has more than tripled the value of its military infrastructure on Hainan and on reclaimed reefs in the South China Sea, according to an exclusive ...

Escalating tensions in the South China Sea, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. says, are not only a regional issue, but a global one. By Sui-Lee Wee and Camille Elemia With China aggressively ...

China claims the Spratly Islands, along with most of the South China Sea, as its territory. The claims overlap with those of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Taiwan.

BEIJING, June 15 (Reuters) - China's military held joint sea and air patrols in the South China Sea on Saturday, a spokesperson for the People's Liberation Army's Southern Theater Command said.

A state-backed think tank has put forward China’s “four core principles” as a constructive framework for addressing disputes in the South China Sea, while blaming regional tensions on ...

A violent attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat tests Hanoi’s muted but resolute approach to China’s aggression in the South China Sea. A violent attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat tests Hanoi ...

China maintains vast claims to the waters in the South China Sea, which contains some of the world’s richest fisheries, as well as shipping lanes that carry about a third of global ocean trade.